Sliding-door hanger.



No. 678,609. Patented July 16, mm. E. G. WORDEN.

SLIDING 000B HANGER.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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EDSON G. VORDEN, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,609, dated July 16, 190] Application filed March 29, 1900. Serial No. 10,612. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDsoN G. WORDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding-Door Hangers, of which the following is a specifi-r cation.

My invention comprises certain improvements in devices for hanging sliding doors by means of which simplicity in construction is attained and the labor of hanging and removing a door is reduced to a minimum.

Other advantages resulting from these improvements will be pointed out in the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hanger embodying my improvements and showing also sections of the track and door. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional View through a portion of the adjusting-bolt. Fig. 1 is a side View of the collar attached to the door, through which the adj usting-bolt extends. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a side View of the guard, and Fig. 7 is a side view showing the ends of adjoining sections of the track.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a carrier consisting of a grooved wheel 1, adapted to roll upon a track 2, said wheel being journaled in a support or hanger 3. A sleeve 4 is secured to the lower end of the support, said sleeve being arranged, preferably, at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the horizontal. The lower part 5 of the hanger is bent inwardly, as shown, in order to bring the sleeve centrally beneath the roller 1. Secured in any suitable way to the part 5 of the hanger is a tapering guard 6, (see Fig. 6,) which projects upwardly toward and close to the bottom of the track 2 in order to prevent the roller from being thrown 01f the track from any cause. This guard may be formed integrally with the hanger, or it may, as shown in the drawings, be secured to the hanger by means of a bolt 7, passing through the latter. A collar 8 is fitted into the top of the door,

' the flanges 9 being set in flush with the top of the door and said collar being held in place by means of screws passing through openings in the offset portions 10 in. the flanges. As

shown in Figs. 1 and i, the collar 8 is arranged at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the flanges, so that when the collar is placed upon the door the opening through the collar may be brought in line with the opening in the sleeve 4, both of said openings being oblique to the top line of the door. An adjusting-screw 11 (shown in detail in Fig. 3) is formed with an upper portion 12, adapted to fit and turn within the sleeve 4, an intermediate portion 13, adapted to turn within the collar 8, and a threaded portion 14, adapted to enter the woodwork of the door, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The screw is held against longitudinal movement within the sleeve by means of the shoulder 15, which abuts against the lower end of the sleeve a, and a washer 16, which bears against the upper end of the sleeve, said washer being held in place by a suitable cotter-pin 17. The head 18 of the screw is polygonal in form, so that it may be engaged by a wrench, and it is also provided with a recess 19 and perforations 20 in order that it may be turned by a screw-driver or spanner, if desired. The door is secured to the carrierby insertin the adj Listing-screw into the collar 8 and turning it so as to force it down obliquely into the woodwork, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1. The door is then raised, and the ,upper portion 12 of the screw is passed through the sleeve 1. The washer 16 and pin 17 are then placed upon the screw, thus holding the parts together. It will be seen that by turning the adjustingscrew in the proper direction within the sleeve the door may be raised or lowered. It will also be noticed that owing to the angle at which the screw enters the wood the door will be much more firmly supported than it would if the screw went into it vertically and also that at this angle and the direction in which it extends, which is away from the adjacent vertical edge of the door, the screw does not enter the tenon in the upper part of the doornor disturb the wedges which are usually driven in alongside of the tenons to hold the parts of the door together.

Instead of screwing the adjusting-bolt into the wood a threaded sleeve might first be fit ted into the wood for the reception of the screw; but I prefer the construction shown on account of its simplicity and inexpensiveboring the hole into which the adjustingscrew is afterward inserted.

It Will be noticed that in the arrangement shown and described the door may be brought quite close to the track. The track 2, as shown, is formed integral with an L-shaped bracket 21, which is secured to a strip 22,

placed within the opening in the partition above the door.

In the drawings, Figs. 1 and 5, I have shown a stop secured to the track for the purpose of limiting the movement of the carrier. This stop consists of a piece of flat metal 23, one end 24 of which curves around and rests upon the upper side of the track, the opposite end 25 being secured to the horizontal part of the track by a set-screw 26, the lower portion of the stop extending below the track and being doubled upon itself, as shown at 27. The edges of the stop are inclined, as shown at 28, so that the end of the adjustingscrewwill abut against said edges to limit the movement of the door.

In order that the carriers maybe lifted from the track without detaching the door from the carriers, slots 29 are formed in the lower side'of the track at convenient places, so that the narrow ends of the guards 6 may enter these slots when the door is raised, and thus permit the flanges of the rollers to be lifted over the track. In Fig. 1 I have shown an arrangement for double doors in which two track-sections 2 and 2 meet at the center of the door, the stop 23 fitting onto both parts and covering the slot 29. In order to remove the roller from the track in this case,

the stop is first removed, uncovering the slot,

when the guard may be brought beneath the latter and raised. As shown in said figure and also in Fig. 5, the bolt 26, which secures the. stop to the track, passes through an opening formed between the adjoining track-sections 2 and 2".

I am aware that it is not new to provide a door-hanger with an obliquely-arranged adjusting-screw; but such screws have generally been arranged in such manner that they pass through a corner of the door, the end of the screw coming out at the vertical edge of the door where the adjustment is effected. Such devices interfere with the tenons of the door or require corner-brackets. My invention is distinguished from such devices in that the headed end of the screw is journaled in the hanger and the threadedend extends into the top of the door, but does not extend through to its vertical edge, the end of the screw being inclosed by the woodwork and inaccessible from the edge of the door.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination with the door and the track, of a roller mounted upon the track and a depending support carried by said roller, a sleeve secu red to the support obliquely to the track, and a screw journaled, near its headed end, in said sleeve and having its threaded end extending obliquely into the top of the door, the point of said screw being inclosed by the woodwork of the door and not accessible from its adjacent vertical edge.

2. The combination with the door, and the track having a recess in its under side, of a roller mounted upon the track, a depending support carried by said roller, and a guard attached to the support and extending beneath the track, said guard being adapted to extend into the recess when the door is raised, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDSON G. WORDEN.

IVitnesses:

ROBERT WATSON, FLORA LEVI. 

